The Earth Gazers

<p>The most beautiful and influential photographs ever made were of the <b>whole earth seen from space</b>. They were taken from the moon, almost as an afterthought, by the <b>astronauts of the Apollo space programme</b>. They inspired a generation to think more seriously about our responsibility for this tiny oasis in space, the <b>''blue marble''</b> falling through empty darkness. <br><br>This is a book about the <b>long road</b> to the capture of those unforgettable images. It is a history of the space programme and of the ways in which it <b>transformed</b> our view of the earth and changed the lives of the astronauts who <b>walked in space and on the moon</b>. <br><br>It is the story of the often <b>blemished visionaries</b> who inspired that journey into space: Charles Lindbergh, Robert Goddard and Wernher Von Braun, and of the courageous pilots who were the first humans to escape the Earth''s orbit.</p>